It is named after Frank Malina, an American aeronautical engineer and painter of the 20th century.
Malina's group was forced to move their operations away from the main Caltech campus into the more remote Arroyo Seco.
Frank Malina, a contemporary engineer and visual artist, experimenting with similar techniques under the title 'Lumidynes'
Several of his colleagues in these years included Qian Xuesen and Frank Malina.
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While at Caltech, he built and tested a number of rockets with Professor Theodore von Kármán's students Frank Malina, Edward Forman, Jack Parsons and Tsien Hsue-shen.